Fig 1.
CONSORT diagram.
Fig 2.
Overview of study procedures (from left to right, top to bottom; written patient permission acquired; the SLN depicted in this figure is in right neck level Ib): peritumoral ICG-[99mTc]Tc-nanocolloid injection, imaging with the SPECT/CT camara, SPECT/CT images, perioperative view without and with immunofluorescence of a sentinel lymph node.
Table 1.
Overview of patient characteristics and outcomes (neck node levels according to Robbins and Gregoire et al [16,17]).
Table 2.
Pain scores (numerical 0–10 scale) per patient after tracer injection.
Fig 3.
Anatomical overview of imaged sentinel lymph nodes and histology confirmed metastases (neck levels according to Robbins and Gregoire et al; VIIa; retropharyngeal, VIII; preauricular, IX; buccofacial [16,17]).
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